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Heroscape Wall and Tower Building Pack

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The new Castle/Wall Packs look to be the usual for Heroscape: flexible and modular. The Hasbro convention display set up at ComicCon (July 06) was astounding. There was a huge castle on display made from six of these "Fortress of the Archkyrie" Castle Packs. Just like a Lego set, you can buy as much or as little as you want to build the size of fortress(es) you desire. For $28 you get 141 pieces in a basic Castle and Wall Pack:

* 7 Straight (wall-to-wall) Bases (single hex size)

* 10 Corner Bases (single hex size)

* 4 End-of-Wall Bases (single hex size)

* 7 Straight Wall sections (attach atop bases, 9 levels tall, single hex width)

* 10 Corner Wall sections (attach atop bases, 9 levels tall, single hex width)

* 4 End Wall sections (attach atop bases, 9 levels tall, single hex width)

* 21 single-space Wall Walks (attach atop wall sections). All wall walk spaces grant +3 movement bonuses just like the road terrain from the Return to the Forgotten Forest road/trees expansion pack.)

* 1 nine-space Wall Walk (attaches atop wall sections or hangs out over wall sections)

* 1 seven-space Wall Walk (goes atop wall sections or hangs out over them)

* 50 Battlements (each is one "facet/side" of a hex in width, 2 levels tall. Attach to wall walks or any game hex terrain). Movement over them or shooting from behind them works just like the bridge walls from the Road to the Forgotten Forest expansion pack.

* 1 opening/closing massive Fortress Doorway. 3 hexes wide and 10 levels tall.

* 1 Fortress Door. Has special opening/closing rules and has its own defense for sieges against it. If it is destroyed it easily removes from play so armies can flood the castle.

* 1 flag (Jandar design)

* 1 Fortress Door card. (Has the special defense stats for whichever player controls the door)

* 1 sliding bar for door. Keeps the door closed from intruders.

* 22 single-rung Ladder pieces. Each is one "facet/side" of a hex in width. 2 levels tall. Each rung take one movement point to climb, rather than the two movement points regular terrain would cost to climb. Figures can end their movement on a ladder as the design will hold them in place. Make the ladders as tall or as many as you want. Other special movement and fighting rules for the ladders are in the Rulebook.

This looks to be a good value for the money and will be highly desired addition to a Heroscape terrain/battlefield collection. Decoration is a little plain but this should allow it to blend with many types of creations for various kinds of armies.

This is another great addition to the heroscape line and it brings some ingenious technology with it. The wall pieces are kind of like giant hex pieces which you can slide together just like the original hex pieces to make castle walls. They stack side to side and on top of each other allowing for larger walls.

You can also attach ladders to the sides of these pieces to allow access to the top of them.

The set comes with several road pieces that have a special bottom allowing them to be attached to the top of the wall pieces making a roof on the walls for units to stand on. With some smaller pieces that can be attached to the sides of these roofs making castle battlements.

The castle door comes with a card and special rules for damaging it and a flag piece is included in case you want to create some capture the flag scenarios.

My only concerns with this product is that there really are some smaller pieces than the other heroscape sets so be careful with young kids and this set. Finally, the tops of the wall pieces latch to each other and over time may become weakened or break off. I'm hoping not as this set is going to add a new dimension to heroscape fun!

Outside of those minor concerns this is a must for the heroscape fan and I'm eager to try these new sets out which I just got from Amazon yesterday!

Serious cool points for this customizable expansion set. These ain't no Playskool pieces. Each *single* hex requires one or two wall sections, a base, a walk tile, and at least two battlement pieces. Assembly is definitely more difficult than Legos, and there's always a concern that one of the snap-together pieces will snap off. Small children and impatient adults won't like putting it together, and the castle is probably better stored as a cool diorama, rather than disassembled back into the box. The cover on the box may be misleading. With the set's 21 single-wall sections and 3-piece doorway I was able to make a one-level 5x7 hex castle, with a few spare wall sections. That's not small, but hardly the castle implied on the box cover. I haven't played the castle set -- but I'm having plenty of fun putting this piece-happy monstrosity together.

I should mention that, if you're shopping for a gift for a HeroScape addict who already has a few expansion sets, this is the "safest" set to give. Even if you give a castle set to someone who already owns one, it will be a very welcome gift. Unlike other sets, multiple castle sets work *very* well together, and help your local HeroScape player build his dream castle. I'm definitely going to buy another set -- or two -- if it goes on sale!

I bought two of these sets so my son and I could setup castles on opposing sides of our Heroscape battlefield. I was VERY pleased with the quantity, quality and assortment of castle wall pieces.

There was plenty of wall in each set (we did buy 2) for my son and I to each build our own large castles. My son went with his own single tower design and I had a more conventional 2 tower layout. The resulting castle constructions are very solid. Nothing to worry about in the realm of gameplay. You won't have to worry about pieces falling off of these things. Very well designed interlocking system that conforms perfectly to the existing hex land pieces.

The walls equate to about 10 or 11 height in the game and allows you to explore some of the lesser-used advanced game tactics, such as extra attack/defense bonuses for being more than 10 higher than an opponent, falling, moats can be employed to allow characters to jump from the walls without injury, flying characters can gain huge height advantages very quickly! These new elements have certainly made our battles more interesting.

My only gripe (and it's a relatively unimportant one) was that the set included only one type of army flag for the castle (Jandar). I would have preferred they provided a blank flag plastic piece along with a sticker sheet so you can choose which army will be occupying the fortress. I bought two castle sets so now I have two Jandar flags; I guess I'll just have to photoshop some new flag stickers myself.

So far, the only seige engine you have against this type of obstruction is a flying character. Otherwise you can only pound on the front door and with a life of 10, not only does it take a lot of punishment before giving way, you character takes a pounding from defenders on the wall and towers with nice height advantage attack bonuses. The walls themselves are (at least in current rule sets) indestructable. Will be interesting to see if seige devices and/or opposing army fortresses are in the works. A catapult or some specialized wall climber characters would be nice.

If you're contemplating getting the Heroscape game for a child keep the following in mind:

1. No doubt, half the fun of this game is building the battlefield. It can take awhile and is great for an imaginative child or adult who likes to build with Lego or other such blocks. If you don't see yourself or your child enjoying a half-day worth of designing and building your battlefield layout, this game may not be for you.

2. There are two instruction sets; basic and advanced. I can play the advanced rule set with my son who is 8, but only because I carefully monitor his moves and help him along and make suggestions. Gradually he's picking up on the finer points, but it is a moderately complex rule set that an adult will have to assist children under 10. Most 8-10 year olds would have no problem playing using the basic rule set on their own.

3. Adults who enjoy wargaming will no doubt also like this game. The advanced rule set is deep enough to allow for complex strategies.

The boys and their Mom haven't stopped playing with this since they got it! It was bought as an add-on to the Heroscape game, and Mom said without this part, it wouldn't have been nearly as fun!

I'm new to Heroscape, and slowly catching up with all the great products and intuitive designs the guys at Hasbro continue to churn out. This expansion is a great addition to the game, opening the doors to more original game play, capture the flag scenarios, and giving you the ability to just create any kind of castle-like campaign you can imagine.

Good instructions, with clear rules that do not over complicate things, and an incredibly durable product. I would suggest buying two, not one. Though one set comes with a scenario and a good amount of pieces to build a nice castle, you'll be begging for more walls and towers very soon, I already am! You can't go wrong with this, even as a gift, Heroscapers as I've discovered (and am now experiencing) always want more then one expansion, the more you have the more you can build. Their almost like legos, the more, the merrier! Pick this up, you cannot go wrong!

The castle is an excellent addition to any Heroscape Master Set. If you get this though, I would recommend you have at least two Master Sets as it's harder to play with it if there's not very much land outside of it.

It seems a little complicated for my 9 year old, but he counted the minutes until it arrived and was not disappointed when he received it. He has been carrying it everywhere with him on his 2 week vacation.

We've gotten one of these for all of my boys. We thought they would be fine with only one having a wall, but they all were so jealous they all had to have one. Sometimes thats all they play with and skip most of the other game tiles/terrain pieces. They love creating different ways to construct it. It is also larger than we thought. Awesome expansion!

This is a great addition to any Heroscape collection. The ability to add a CASTLE to the gaming environment is just way too cool.